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Preparing your Resume for a Pharmaceutical Job

First impressions are lasting ones

You ve got precious little time to catch a recruiter’s eye, which is why you need to make sure your resume is as effective as possible. Here are a few pointers to help get you on an AstraZeneca recruiter’s short list:

Emphasise what you’ve done, not what you want to do

Find experiences in your life where you’ve demonstrated the behaviors listed in a job description

What to avoid on a Pharmaceutical Resume

Wordiness. Use short sentences. Treat your resume like an advertisement and use complete phrases

Excessive use of borders, italics and fancy fonts. They don’t upload cleanly into online systems

Small fonts. Stick to 10-12 point

Too much bold type. Only enbold major achievements

Last reviewed: January 16, 2015

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Important Notice

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Potential candidates should be wary of approaches that appear to be offering a job for which they have not applied, especially if personal details or money must be sent in order to proceed with the recruitment. Neither AstraZeneca nor any commissioned third parties recruit in this manner. Such approaches are almost certainly fraudulent attempts to gain details of identity for illegal use.

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